YAMAGATA, Japan (March 18) – A huge cloud of smoke was seen early in the morning on Friday at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant, CBS News reported.
The smoke was ballooned into air suddenly when the emergency workers were trying to reconnect the electricity to cooling systems and spew more water on the overheating reactors at the tsunami-wrecked power plant.
During the past week four of the six reactors of Fukushima Dai-ichi plant got fire and face explosions or partial meltdowns followed by worst ever earthquake and tsunami. According to experts from Japan, as well as US, the critical danger lies where actually the spent nuclear fuel is stored and reportedly the fuel rods in one of that storage area are already exposed to fire and emitting radiation.
The nuclear Safety Agency told that today's smoke came, more probably, from Unit 2 and its cause was still unidentified. An explosion had hit the building on Tuesday, possibly damaging a crucial cooling chamber that situated below the reactor core.
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